Twelve-year-old Abdulrasheed Awal and his father Awal Dapkai make between N45,000 and N50,000 each day through illegal mining ...

The Senate at the weekend vowed to ensure that the mining sector in the country is free of illegal and detrimental activities ...

Aboubakar Alassane of the West Africa Peoples Organization (WAPO) explains how Nigeriens are enduring the consequences of ...

Niger State Governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago, has announced that an executive bill for "responsible mining" will be forwarded to ...

Mali’s military junta — crippled by sanctions and cut off from Western aid — is at the forefront of the push, aggressively ...

Mali last month announced the nationalisation of the Yatela gold mine, a non-operating asset in which ...

The Nigerian Senate has expressed its determination to eliminate illegal mining activities that have been depriving the federal government of significant revenue and contributing to food and ...

A bill seeking to establish the Nigeria Mine Rangers Service (NMRS) has been rejected by major stakeholders in the country’s ...

He commended the Niger State Government and the Federal Ministry of Solid Minerals for their timely interventions in the Shiroro mishap. “Their responses were prompt despite the very difficult ...

A decline in U.S. influence in Africa means U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's administration will have to grapple with blind spots in its understanding of a fast-changing continent increasingly ...

Over the weekend, Senator Ekong, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Solid Minerals, led a delegation to Niger State to investigate the recent collapse of a mining pit that claimed around 30 lives.